President Donald Trump has heralded a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade talks, and markets rallied in relief over a de-escalation in tensions between the world's two biggest economies. But closer inspection suggests...

Sioux City has taken its first formal step to lift its ban on pit bulls in the city.

A trial has been delayed for a man accused of killing an Iowa high school student almost 40 years ago.

State budget experts say revenue growth likely will slow in the coming year.

Georgia authorities have found a man suspected in an Iowa slaying.

The mother of a 4-year-old boy who shot himself after finding an unsecured gun in her vehicle in Des Moines has been sentenced to a year of probation.

Work has begun to expand the airport runway in the Cedar Rapids suburb of Marion.

Backers of a skateboard park under construction in downtown Des Moines say they have reached their $6.3 million funding goal.

Fort Dodge police say a man has been shot to death on the north-central Iowa city.

The trial for a former farmhand charged with first-degree murder in the abduction and killing of 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has again been delayed.

A Mason City man has won the first $100,000 top prize in a new Iowa Lottery game.

Less than four months until voting begins, a Democratic presidential race that had been largely static through the summer has tumbled into a chaotic fall.

An Iowa high school science teacher has resigned after an investigation into a social media post that appeared to threaten Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

A former workers' compensation attorney for a Tyson Foods meatpacking division has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Iowa that accuses company officials of making anti-gay slurs, filing false information in...

Some people forced from their homes by Missouri River floodwaters will be leaving their refuge at an Iowa state park.

The Iowa Supreme Court says the founder of a boarding school for troubled youth will get another chance to potentially discredit a student whose testimony helped convict him of abuse charges.

A southern Iowa lawmaker has been charged again with drunken driving.

Authorities have released the name of a man who was shot to death on the north side of Des Moines.

A pair of Republican senators won't say if the president can ask another country to investigate a political foe.

Police say a shooting on Des Moines' north side has left a man dead.

The lower Missouri River will remain high into December because of the large amount of water being released from dams into the river.

The Iowa Supreme Court has issued orders changing how the state court system conducts security assessments after two cybersecurity workers hired by state court administrators were arrested for breaking into the Dallas...

A state audit report says nearly $62,000 is missing from deposits for the Wayne-Ringgold-Decatur County Solid Waste Management Commission.

Gov. Kim Reynolds is backing the new leader of Iowa's human resources agency, saying he made an honest error when he misstated what his department does on his résumé.

Authorities say two people were badly injured by a house fire in Dubuque.

Police have arrested a man suspected of leaving the scene after his vehicle fatally struck a bicyclist in the eastern Iowa city of Muscatine.

Authorities say a man has been killed while working on a dump truck south of Dubuque.

Vice President Mike Pence says he is working with the White House counsel's office to release transcripts of his own calls with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Pence says the phone conversations help exonerate...

A new study finds that FEMA buys flood-prone homes more often in wealthy, populous counties than in poor, rural areas, even though lower-income rural areas may be more likely to flood.

The Iowa Court of Appeals says the Sioux City Human Rights Commission may sue the owners of rental properties for housing discrimination for rejecting renters with disabilities who asked to keep companion animals in their...

A top aide to Gov. Kim Reynolds is working as an expert witness in a private property lawsuit, backing a family that is seeking millions of dollars from neighbors in a zoning dispute.

Cedar Rapids officials have announced construction of a new flood gate to protect part of downtown from Cedar River flooding.

Authorities have arrested another suspect in the 2017 shooting death of a man whose body was found in a Cedar Rapids alley.

Prosecutors say an Iowa woman charged in a Chicago man's slaying was furious that he'd refused to share a financial windfall with her.

A man who exchanged gunshots with officers in eastern Iowa has been given 10 years in prison.

A driver has been given probation and suspended prison time for the crash death of another driver in Des Moines.

Iowa Democrat Theresa Greenfield raised more than $1.1 million from July through September in her campaign for the seat held by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.

A south-central Iowa county has imposed a moratorium on new wind turbine installations.

Elizabeth Warren's rapid rise in presidential primary polls is being accompanied by heightened scrutiny and criticism, from both President Donald Trump and her Democratic opponents.

A man who spent more than 25 years in prison for an Iowa murder that he didn't commit is urging college students to help inmates who may be innocent.

Forecasters say a wintry storm system could drop up to 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) of snow on northwest Nebraska later this week.

Officials in Waterloo have approved a measure banning the city and many businesses from asking about applicants' criminal records in early stages of the hiring process.

A Nebraska judge has imprisoned an Iowa man who authorities say was driving drunk when his pickup truck rammed into a sports car in north Omaha, fatally injuring two other Iowa men.

A man accused of fatally shooting two 18-year-olds in a vehicle in a business parking lot wants his trial moved out of Cedar Rapids.

A state panel that approves payment for lawsuits and legal settlements for the state of Iowa has approved payment of $315,000 to the parents of an Iowa State University student who died by suicide in November 2015.

The state of Iowa has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two women once held at a state-run juvenile home for nearly $700,000.

The union representing workers at pork processing plants has sued the federal government to challenge new rules finalized in September that allow companies to set line speeds and turn more food safety tasks over to company...

Iowa House Republicans have chosen Rep. Pat Grassley to head their leadership teams as Speaker-Select of the Iowa House.

A Nov. 25. sentencing has been scheduled for an eastern Iowa woman accused of stealing from her mother.

A Wisconsin woman has been imprisoned for sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl in Iowa and Nebraska

Authorities say the crash of an all-terrain vehicle killed a 10-year-old in northwest Iowa.

Authorities have released the name of a man slain in Des Moines over the weekend.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is telling Iowa voters that they can help refute questions about her electability if they support her in the caucuses.

Construction has begun in south-central Iowa on a $13.5 million, 50,000 square-foot facility to train power pole linemen in several Midwest states.

Last month's closing of Unity Point Hospital's obstetrics unit in Marshalltown was only the most recent in Iowa.

A Vinton man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing at officers sent to check on his welfare.

Police in Des Moines are investigating the death of a man, calling the death suspicious.

A northeastern Iowa man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography.

Thousands of people crowded the streets of downtown Iowa City on Friday to demand action on climate change and welcome 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

A Waterloo high school science teacher has been placed on administrative leave after he made what appeared to be a threatening social media comment about 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court has apologized to a legislative committee investigating the break-ins at courthouses and the court system's own state-owned building as part of a cybersecurity vulnerability...

A company has taken another step toward redeveloping the former Waterloo Greyhound Park.

A man has been convicted of video recording girls in the bathroom of his West Des Moines record store.

Google is holding a groundbreaking Friday morning for a $600 million data center it plans to build in an Omaha suburb.

The University of Iowa is investigating after racist graffiti was found scrawled on a library wall at the school.

After an unusually rainy September in the region, the amount of water flowing down the lower Missouri River this year is likely to match the 2011 record.